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Dodgy kitchen floor - how do I fix it?

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Pinkballoons55 · 10/09/2024 21:38

We desperately need our kitchen floor sorting. It is tiled but has several big cracks and chips, it just doesnt look great, and im also sick of cleaning the grout!

I wanted to get the LVT flooring fitted but have hit a bit of a wall and am not sure how best to proceed.

Our kitchen used to be split into two rooms (before we bought the house) - a kitchen and a smaller utility area. The foundations under the floor are different in the original kitchen area vs the old utility area - when you tap the tiles in that part of the room, it sounds almost hollow. The tiles have cracked there and there has been damp on the wall there in the past. Apparently all of this is being caused by an issue with the foundations, or area underneath the floor tiles. No professional flooring fitters will lay vinyl tiles over the current tiles as a result. They are saying there's no point because the floor underneath in that one part of the kitchen (probs about 2m x 3m) is too unstable and may cause the vinyl tiles to move/lift over time.

I'm a bit stuck as I'm not sure what I'm meant to do next... who would I speak to to get the flooring issue sorted? Would it be a general builder or is there a specific type of builder that would deal with this sort of thing? I am just not sure who I should be contacting!

(I'm new to the whole home improvements thing, as you can probably tell...)

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Geneticsbunny · 11/09/2024 07:58

Without taking the floor up to have a look it will be difficult for anyone to work out what is wrong or what the cost might be. I am guessing that there might be a joist or some floorboards which a re rotten if there is movement and damp patches.

You want a builder who can remove the existing tiles and take the current floor up to have a look. Then you might need some air brick to ventilate the subfloor space and some joists and floorboards might need replacing.

In order to take the floor up/ replace the damaged joists the kitchen is likely to be damaged in some way even if it can be removed and put back in again. Not a bad time to maybe think about a new kitchen?

Geneticsbunny · 11/09/2024 07:59

If you want to save some money you could take the tiles up yourself and lay some temporary cheap vinyl floor so you can live with it while the floor gets fixed.

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